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...seven daughters of Atlas and Pleïone. According to one Greek myth, the seven sisters were pursued so ardently by Hunter Orion that Zeus changed them into a constellation of stars, the Pleiades. One of the seven is dim because of mourning for a sister who married a mortal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Dim Pleiad | 7/26/1937 | See Source »

...last sneaked them by a waiter (Alexander Asro) who has been promised a part in their show, Mr. Loeb, after the most voracious eating scene since Mclntyre & Heath in The Ham Tree, amiably suggests that a small part be written in for the chef. In addition to the mortal drolleries of these accomplished comedians, a flanking barrage of laughs is provided by the continual reappearance of a man from the We Never Sleep Collection Agency who is trying to repossess a typewriter, an elk's head which the director loyally refuses to pawn and two stuffed owls. There...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Play in Manhattan: May 31, 1937 | 5/31/1937 | See Source »

...England had no title at all but was plain Mr. Frank Seaman Dymoke of Scrivelsby Court, who has the hereditary right of being King's Champion. Mr. Dymoke's ancestors were supposed to ride in full armor into Westminster Hall, fling down a gantlet and challenge to mortal combat any who doubted the right to the throne of the newly crowned King...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: God Saves the King | 5/24/1937 | See Source »

...mortal hour glass drops through its bend, Into a shallow grave at His command...

Author: By Mauries Sapienza, | Title: Crimson Reprints 1937 Poem And Ode from Album Out Today | 5/21/1937 | See Source »

Like tides of mortal seas, the flowing stream...

Author: By Mauries Sapienza, | Title: Crimson Reprints 1937 Poem And Ode from Album Out Today | 5/21/1937 | See Source »

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